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black, he would never have rested satisfied until he 

 had become the best shoeblack in , England,' And 

 such efforts to excel will not only give the satisfac- 

 tion of success, but, in the case of bee-keeping, will 

 best bring actual profit. 



Good management always pays. We see example 

 of this every day in every condition of life. Some 

 people, by management, seem to make a shilling go 

 as far as two shillings in the hands of others. Some 

 people, for want of management, are always behind- 

 hand in everything, and always in trouble in con- 

 sequence. F6r a garden, for instance, good manage- 

 ment, as well as good labour, is necessary. A great 

 deal of work may be done, but unless it is well- 

 directed work, or, in other words, unless there is 

 management, much of it will be thrown away. It 

 is the same with a farm. If it is worth while to farm 

 at all, it is worth while to farm well ; and the better 

 the land is farmed, the better will it pay. In short, 

 management and labour must go together in order to 

 bring success. 



Virgil gives us a good example of all this, de- 

 scribing his visit to an old gardener of his day, who, 

 in all he did, fully carried out the great principle, and 

 by labour and management took first place both with 

 his garden and his bees : — 



' For once do I remember to have seen 



An old Corycian gardener, who possest 

 A few scant acres of forsaken ground, 

 For pasture or for ploughing all too poor, 

 Ungenial for the vine ; yet here he rais'd 

 His vegetable fare, verbenas, lilies. 



